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kb1858
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8 years ago
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Uploading albums from Apple Photos to Dropbox for Back up

Hi   I am trying to sort out cloud storage for my photos.  They are on Apple Photos on a Mac running Sierra 10.12.6.  I already have an external harddrive on which they are regularly backed up.  ...
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    Jay
    8 years ago
    Hi Kate, most likely this won’t work since the Photos app is a database of its own (hence why we don’t recommend syncing it to Dropbox).
     
    However, in Photos, you should be able to export the album, or the photos out of that app into the Dropbox folder. This will copy the photos, not just move them, so you will be duplicating the space used on your Mac the more photos you copy over.
     
    Hope this clarifies matters!
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Jay
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8 years ago
Hi Kate, most likely this won’t work since the Photos app is a database of its own (hence why we don’t recommend syncing it to Dropbox).
 
However, in Photos, you should be able to export the album, or the photos out of that app into the Dropbox folder. This will copy the photos, not just move them, so you will be duplicating the space used on your Mac the more photos you copy over.
 
Hope this clarifies matters!
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JAFDMD
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3 years ago

Hello,

 

I want to transfer all my photos in Apple photos app to Dropbox.  (I realize that the album format present in the app unfortunately cannot not be duplicated in the folder I have created in Dropbox for the transfer)  Is it better to export the photos via the export function in apple Photos app or to use the upload feature in Dropbox?  Is there any difference in the quality of the photo that ends up in Dropbox?  Thanks in advance for your reply.

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